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And difference is that Edmure likely helped Brynden to escape instead of trying to imprison him.

This. Why change that? I can empatize with Edmure with trying to save his child, but not helping Blackfish... It is more or less the same from the books but why not keep something that didn't have to be changed? It's one last in your face to Lannisters. Maybe he is a prisoner and has to play by other people rules, but letting his uncle go is one last ounce of resistance he could give them. Anyways I like bookEdmure better, so show is a show, and books are books

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Edmure is securing his place as one of the few good people in Westeros. No he isn't going to choose to let Jamie murder his child over honor and a stupid pile of rocks in a river.

in a world where 6/10 children before the age of five "a pile of rocks in a river" is worth far more than any child.

Edmure would have been right to surrender the castle a year before now. By that time it was pointless to keep up resistance and have all his people dead for a little piece of glory (even that desputable). But now this decision is entirely wrong. The Lannisters are weakened and if RR could realy stand a siege for two years that would be well enough time to outlive the Lannisters. But poor Edmund in is dungeon was not kept up to date I guess. Beside the fact he was an underachiever all his live.

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This. Why change that? I can empatize with Edmure with trying to save his child, but not helping Blackfish... It is more or less the same from the books but why not keep something that didn't have to be changed? It's one last in your face to Lannisters. Maybe he is a prisoner and has to play by other people rules, but letting his uncle go is one last ounce of resistance he could give them. Anyways I like bookEdmure better, so show is a show, and books are books

I think it's David & Dan's love for nuance striking again. Instead of shades of gray, conflicting rations and tragic situation, it's way easier to just make Edmure a bitch. The line "Find the Blackfish, put him in irons and hand him over to the Freys" pretty much ruins him.

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Indeed, they just brought down Edmure and Blackfish's relationship to a pissing contest.

And the Blackfish told the Freys to slit his nephew's throat...for a pile of rocks in a river and the argument he had with the Tully commander about letting Edmure in. And you clearly see the resentment on Edmure's face when he came in and saw his uncle. And I'm sure handing over the Blackfish was part of the terms Jaime and the Freys laid down and not necessarily Edmure's idea.